Posted on 06/04/2010 9:33:40 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
What is it with these left-wing entertainers that have to insult people while they accept their dubious awards? Why can't these lefties just graciously accept an award and go about their business without going out of their way to let the world know about their politics? But once again, this time with Paul McCartney, we have an entertainer forcing his politics on the world in an inappropriate manner.
While accepting the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, McCartney decided that the celebratory air of the event was a good time make to fun of George W. Bush and pump up the Obammessiah.
“After the last eight years,” the former Beatle joked, “it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is.”
This from a guy whose entire songwriting career is well known to be as deep as a thimble philosophically speaking. And this is not to even mention that this is from a guy whose country voted Neville Chamberlain into office once upon a time!
Let's face facts, here. Paul McCartney was the bubblegum, the popcorn, the fluff of the Beatles. For depth one has to look to John Lennon's dark cynicism or George Harrison's more thoughtful musings on life and religion. Even after the Beatles both Lennon and Harrison took their themes and memes more seriously than Mr. Paul "Silly Love Songs" McCartney ever did...
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And actually George did write “It Don’t Come Easy” for Ringo.
Oops. Yes, you are correct. I always thought he got jobbed on that lawsuit, which he lost, as I recall. How do you prove a 3 chord song is ripped off?
Yeah, I believe it was maybe the first post-Beatles song. And it’s still my fave of any ex-Beatle songs.
Considering Obama did not write his books and constantly gets facts and figures wrong and needs a teleprompter to so much as talk to elementary schools children, meaning his speeches are written by someone else, I don’t think Obama has ever been in a library.
Nonsense. Look at any solo Paul or John work and compared it to George songs like I Need You, My Sweet Lord, What Is Life. If I Needed Someone.
Tell me one Paul song post Beatles that was even close to If I Needed Someone. Or John’s post-Beatle crap. The post Beatles songs written by John and Paul on their own were laughable.
The Beatles songs that may have been almost 100% Paul but credited as Lennon-McCartney like Hey Jude or Let It Be are incredibly repetitive.
I do think pretty highly of Maccas first solo album (the one with “Maybe I’m Amazed”) He played all the instruments. And had some damn fine melodies on it, “Junk” and “Every Night” are up there with anything he did with the Beatles.
Downhill from there.
No, he wasn't.
Just because Maca took some unimaginative, mk 1 mod 0 pot shots at America's favorite political whipping boy is no reason to get one's panties in such a bunch as to discredit or malign the achievements of one of the greatest musicians, composers, and performers of the past 100 years. To call McCartney the "bubblegum" of the Beatles is really uninformed and dismissive. The man wrote Hey Jude. The man wrote Blackbird. His throw-away tunes and D-sides, let alone B-sides or C-sides, would have made the entire careers of other musicians.
And even at age 68, Maca is a dynamo on stage. Rock on, Paul.
HA!
I agree that George wrote the better songs. When I listen to Revolver I like the George tracks. John and Paul’s stuff is lousy.
I always thought Paul’s music after the Beatles broke up was pathetic and it really sucked. Bad songs like Hands across the Water, and Silly Love Songs were the worst. For a real barf fest try Black or White with Michael Jackson—pure drek.
Yeah, George needed so much help writing his songs that after the Beatles broke up, he was the first to put out a solo album---a double one at that---called All Things Must Pass which pretty much blows away anything any solo Beatle did, with the possible exception of some of Lennon's material. Harrison was an exceptional songwriter; his membership in a band that contained two of the most prolific songwriters of the 20th century was the only thing holding George back. Typically, George only got one or two of his songs on a Beatles album because John and Paul rigged it that way, not because George was a sub-par songwriter.
That said, Paul is a graceless fool. Any time he wants to match his reading list against Bush's I'd be happy to referee.
Dear Paul is a pothead. He is a good argument for keeping pot illegal. It just makes people so stupid.
Prohibition is awesome.
I totally agree. George’s songwriting was largely overlooked but in retrospect - his songs were very good. Taxman, If I Needed Someone, I Want To Tell You.
Paul’s post Beatles music was laughably bad. John’s was only slightly better.
Actually, he got sued for My Sweet Lord, which sounds nearly identical to He’s So Fine by the Shirelles.
I wonder if he and Stevie Wonder and our fomer cokehead (current President) Obama broke out the white rails of devil's dandruff.
It's been known to happen before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Toot_and_a_Snore_in_'74A Toot and a Snore in '74 is a bootleg album of the only known recording session in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney played together after the break-up of The Beatles. Mentioned by Lennon in a 1975 interview,[1] details were brought to light in May Pang's 1983 book, Loving John, and it gained wider prominence when McCartney made reference to the session in a 1997 interview. Discussing with Australian writer Sean Sennett in his Soho office, McCartney claimed the "session was hazy... for a number of reasons"...
The room froze when McCartney walked in, and remained perfectly silent until Lennon said, ‘Valiant Paul McCartney, I presume?’ McCartney responded: ‘Sir Jasper Lennon, I presume?’ (Valiant Paul and Sir Jasper were characters played by the two, in a televised Christmas play early in the Beatles's career.) McCartney extended a hand, Lennon shook it, and the mood was pleasant but subdued, cordial but not especially warm, at least initially...
What followed was not very productive. Lennon sounds to be on cocaine—he can be heard offering Wonder a snort on the first track, and on the fifth, asks someone to give him a snort. This is also the origin of the album name, where John Lennon clearly asks: "You wanna snort, Steve? A toot? It's goin' round". In addition, Lennon seems to be having trouble with his microphone and headphones.
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